Shorts

A chain of 10,000 images found through Google’s reverse image search. A primal chaos takes place as artificial consciousness is formed.

A film director struggles through a day of chaotic, unforeseen problems.

A former astronaut struggles to connect with her unborn child after the loss of her partner.

The day after meeting a crew of twenty-somethings at a South Asian happy hour, 39-year-old Hena is thrown into their group chat.

Set in the early 1960s, a budding soul music label brings in a savvy group of local teenage musicians to offer feedback and inspiration to its early signees.

Marcia, a young single mother, pursues her dream date.

An epic battle breaks out between a cat and a moth in order to win the perfect spot on the couch.

Sonja and Per meet to create a space where they safely can explore sides of themselves that they suppress in their everyday lives.

An eccentric boy has trouble fitting in at school due to his obsession with crows.

A farm boy falls in love at first sight with a mysterious girl riding a cow.

Mary and Emma will settle their differences the only way they know how: a duel to the death!

In a tiny hospital room, Vitya and Lena have no choice but to grow up as they welcome their newborn.

A grief-stricken Angela visits her parents for a meal where discussion of painful truths turn the evening into a nightmare.

Harold is given a bag of dirt, and he needs to get rid of it immediately.

An absurdist, soft-spoken journey along the Chicago Red Line train during rush hour.

A disappearing Black city is filled with flooded basements in this meditation on the fluid nature of memory.

Joel and his horse, working under the blazing sun, discover a man attempting to start a forest fire.

A “girls night in” is abruptly interrupted by a home invasion with a comedic twist.

Two University of Virginia workers share a drink and conversation at a local nightclub.

A family is visited by a mysterious and invisible being with a taste for TV.

A worker with exposed guts struggles at the office.

Lynn leaves her family behind to pursue her luck in the city as a country singer.

A bored middle-aged woman desperate for an adrenaline rush becomes entangled with a crew of dangerous diamond thieves.

A father and son are a pair of ice merchants, who parachute from their cliffside house to sell their wares to the village below.

Mr. Cat’s severe fear of water has stopped him from achieving his dreams, until one day he makes a new friend who motivates him to persevere.

A father takes his baby out for a leisurely kayaking trip, which turns out to be not so relaxing.

A new priest carries out an exorcism that goes off the rails, and he’s forced to deal with a strange, evil power.

A woman trapped in a deadly domestic universe who is suddenly sprung free when she comes into contact with the king of dust, Mucor.

Two women journalists attempting to broadcast from protest-filled Mink are targeted by a drone.

A small child befriends a giant rock who seems to have lost its home.

Legacy, life, and elderly motherhood is celebrated from the perspective of the filmmaker’s grandmothers.

This film repurposes footage from a film premiere party to reveal the survival of colonial inheritance within the western collective unconscious.

Trees whisper tales of the Gods and the ancestors, spirits wander in the forest, and dark secrets buried in the time slowly emerge.

An elementary school student, Cass, gives an unorthodox presentation on her summer vacation in Pompeii.

In the early ’90s, an imaginative 15-year-old searches for her ultimate paramour but struggles to balance the real world and her grandiose fantasies.

An exhilarating and terrifying Labrador Inuit ritual takes place every January.

Since 1979, Iranian filmmakers have been prohibited from depicting men and women touching on screen. This short film collages the cinematic tricks that directors have relied on to represent intimate moments and powerful emotions.

Inner city dreams are illuminated in this imaginative surrealist journey narrated by Colman Domingo.

A sleepless mother searches for her missing child in war-torn Palestine with the help of the night sky.

A brother calls a doctor to an isolated country home to examine his sister Debroah, who he believes is losing her mind.

Celebrated artists Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley provide insight into their creation of the Obama portraits.

A coming-of-age story about not conforming to gender norms, and the champions whose support makes all the difference.

A pre-teen is caught between what her mother wants her to be and what she wants for herself.

An antique instrument dealer receives a magical vinyl record from a traveler.

An archive of pareidolia, a condition in which someone sees a pattern or image of something that does not exist, is narrated by a descendant of exodusters.

Painter Titus Kaphar shifts to film in the face of an art market seeking to silence his activism.

An unexpected visit shakes up forty-year-old Željka’s quiet, isolated routine and transports her back into the past.

A poetic imagining of track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson’s Olympic journey.

A giant, mind-controlling, leech-like creature takes over the brains of two sisters.

A Cambodian adoptee receives a rug with a dark history as a housewarming gift.

Ann and Madeline prepare to competitively swim in the National Senior Games.

A chronicle of one woman’s downward spiral as an anxiety attack discloses a complex labyrinth of emotions and fears.

A US Senator faces her greatest challenge when a home invasion takes a shocking turn.

The sons of fisherman Sowah and Okai cope with the loss of their eldest brother, who drowned during a fishing expedition.

A woman wakes up to find her house transformed into a terrifying maze of creatures and nightmares.

Audrey, a New York City comedian who can make a joke of any situation, faces a staggering challenge in the beautiful mountains of Oregon.